Prat-Resina's blog

Encounters with alien life

Essay

A vast distance in space, time, and intellect

The joyful struggle

Essay
Wellness

A personal view on wellness

Querying Google Scholar with Python

Python
Javascript

And build an always current list of publications in your department

Calculate the Potential of Mean Force from MD of an enzymatic reaction

Modeling
R

Parsing files, plotting coordinates, calculating free energy

The Simplest Potential of Mean Force using Molecular Dynamics

Modeling
R

Using the rotation of ethane to understand some tools from statistical mechanics.

The four horsemen of curriculum innovation apocalypse

Curriculum

What everyone should take into account before investing in curriculum change

World History for kids in times of plague

Javascript
Kids

A drag and drop silly interface to teach kids fundamental events in human civilization

Giving students feedback with simple learning analytics

Curriculum
R

Using learning data to inform students of their course performance

Open ended questions: Name 5 relevant items

R
Assessment

Analysis of asking students to name 5 relevant statement pertinent to a topic

Chemistry curriculum: triangles everywhere

Curriculum

Many aspects of Chemistry learning, from delivery to learning objectives come in triads of linked concepts

Web lotteries and Bingos for Student Engaging Games

Curriculum
Javascript

Simple web interfaces in Javascript for light-weight games in the chemistry class

Analysis of seven years of General Chemistry student data

Curriculum
R

Trying to make sense of student performance and identifying possible predictors of academic success.

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Prat-Resina’s blog

A list of musings, half-cooked analysis, and reports that could have been submitted to a journal… and never were.